Disney are facing mounting questions over why there was no sign telling guests to be aware of alligators where a two-year-old boy was dragged to his death.

There are no warnings about the predators at the Grand Floridian Resort &Spa where Lane Graves was grabbed and taken underwater on Tuesday night, even though reptiles had been spotted in the water just days before the attack.

But the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, which neighbors the Walt Disney Resort has a sign which clearly reads: 'Please be aware of alligators in the lake.'

Hundreds of people have since poured onto social media, condemning Disney's sign policy in the wake of the horrifying incident.

Disney are facing mounting questions over why there was no sign telling guests to be aware of alligators where a two-year-old boy was dragged to his death. The sign on the beach at the Grand Floridian hotel in Orlando where the youngster was grabbed only warns guests of the steep drop-off

The Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, which neighbors the Walt Disney World resort, has signs warning of alligators in its lake

Some claimed a 'no swimming' sign simply doesn't work while others urged the parents of the tragic boy to sue the company.

Photos of the alligator warnings at the Hyatt resort were shared on the Disney fan website Mouse Steps, and the signs have been there for at least three years.

The person who posted the photos online wrote: 'No swimming signs are very common at resorts here - I don't see many alligators in Orlando, but it's always a good idea to do any swimming in pools, not lakes.'

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Lane Graves, the son of Matthew, 42, and Melissa Graves, 38, of Elkhorn, Nebraska, was identified for the first time by Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.

Demings confirmed that dive teams had located an 'intact' body in the Seven Seas Lagoon. He said divers located a body in the man-made lake around 1.45pm and it was pulled out of the lagoon around 3.30pm.

While the body has not been officially identified, Demings says there is no reason not to believe that it is not Lane.

The Graves family were on the third day of their vacation in Orlando when tragedy struck on Tuesday night.

Lane had been wading in a 'no swimming' area at the upscale hotel at around 9.20pm when he was attacked and dragged underwater by the reptile.

The boy's father tried frantically to save him, but could not pry the toddler from the gator's grasp.

During the search, wildlife officials caught and killed five alligators in the lake and they say they will now use forensics to determine whether they have already euthanized the gator responsible for the attack. If not, officials promised to continue searching the lake for the creature.

Walt Disney World said it has shut down all of its Florida resort beaches and marinas out of precaution after the incident - the first such death in its 45-year history.

One social media user urged Lane Graves' parents to sue Disney because they didn't have a sign warning of alligators in the water

Another person wrote on Twitter that she didn't think a 'no swimming' sign was enough on the beach

TexasGalWaxi added that they believe the sign they already have in place doesn't work

Young Queen accused Disney of being at fault for not having adequate warnings around the water

This Twitter user said he assumed the beach would be safe if there were no alerts about alligators

DOZENS OF ATTACKS BY ALLIGATORS ARE REPORTED IN FLORIDA EVERY YEAR

Wildlife officials wrestle with an alligator and load it on to the back of a truck after it killed a swimmer in Florida last year

Millions of alligators live in the 10 southern states of America. There are about 1.3 million wild alligators in Florida alone, according to an estimate from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. That's more than 22 per square mile and about one for every 15 residents.

'They likely exist in every waterway in our state,' said Kenneth Krysko of the Florida Museum of Natural History's Division of Herpetology.

Alligators prefer fresh water lakes and slow-moving rivers and their wetlands, but can also be found in brackish, or slightly salty, water.

Locals have spotted the reptiles in swimming pools and even garages, according to the commission, which receives more than 15,000 alligator-related complaints a year on average.

Only 23 people in Florida have died from unprovoked alligator attacks since 1948, as of April data from the commission. There have been 383 non-fatal bites reported in that time.

Last year there were three fatal alligator attacks, one in Texas and two in Florida. In November, Matthew Riggins, 22, was drowned by an alligator before being eaten while trying to hide from police.

He was reported missing shortly after he and another man had made a plan to rob houses in Barefoot Bay according to his girlfriend. His body was found 10 days later floating in Barefoot Bay pond - closely guarded by an 11-foot alligator.

While a month beforehand, 61-year-old James Okkerse was the first fatality in an alligator attack since 2007. Okkerse had been snorkelling with friends in Blue Spring State Park when he went missing.

Several hours later, his body was found near a 12-foot alligator that had previously been spotted and caused a swimming area at the park to close twice. Officials then decided to kill the animal because of the threat it posed to park guests.

But alligators naturally fear humans, wildlife experts said. The reptiles become a threat, or 'nuisance alligators,' when people feed them. Florida law prohibits the feeding of alligators because that removes their innate fear of humans. People can receive a $500 fine for doing so. The commission allows some 7,000 nuisance alligators to be killed each year.

While rare, alligator attacks are more likely to happen at night. 'That's generally the time that alligators increase their feeding rate,' said the commission's alligator research biologist Allan Woodward, adding that at night the reptiles can 'hunt under the cover of darkness for animals that live on land and come to the water to drink.'

Woodward added that alligators eat more in the summer when it's hot - just as vacationers flock to waterways to cool off.

Around 1.3million alligators live in Florida, with an average of a dozen attacks against humans recorded each year (file pic)